Happy St. Patty's Day!

Chris is at the airport right now, on his way to Minneapolis overnight for a work thing. He'll come home in the wee hours Tuesday night. We've been too busy to blog about family stuff lately, so I thought I'd jot down a few things new. I don't know how to do pictures so maybe Chris can illustrate when he returns.
We celebrated St. Pat's Day this weekend in lots of ways. On Friday, Nolan had a party at school that Thomas and I attended as well. That night, the leprechauns visited! We have a tradition where we put a decorated treasure box in the window so the moonlight hits it and the leprechauns see it. They take the boxes, fill them with their treasure and then hide them somewhere. But they always leave a trail behind so that we might find it. So the boys woke up Saturday morning with trails of gold coins going throughout the house and found treasures of candy, magazines and green shirts. It was cool eating chocolate for breakfast. Nolan had a baseball clinic in the morning, but that night was the Pinewood Derby. So cool! A huge track with 6 lanes raced cars for 2 hours. Unfortunately, Nolan's car didn't win any big awards, but he did get a nice little trophy that every scout got for participating. Thomas was an excited spectator. On Sunday was church, religion class and another baseball clinic. But that night we celebrated with the Rooney clan in an all-out St. Pat's Day feast: corned beef, cabbage, red potatoes and Guiness. It was great.
So we are coasting into spring right now and anxiously awaiting baseball, Easter, Thomas' 4th birthday and Chester's 7th. We are also planning a trip to the Bronx Zoo in April which should be fun. We got hit with a ton of snow over the weekend but I think it's warming up this week and will hopefully melt. Here's to warmer days!